stan.the.man

I watched a quarter of this one before I left, those 2 teams are impressive!! they were going at it!!! one of these 2 could easily win the championship!!!

HS girls basketball west of Roanoke is the best in the State of Virginia up through the 3A level!!! Honaker, Eastside, Central, Ridgeview, Abingdon, Carroll County with a few other teams just a little behind these team!! Abingdon wins the 3A region D championship and can't win the M7 which is a 2A District. There are several high caliber players on this side of the state!!!

Abingdon girls 3A Regional Champions, is this winning enough!!!!

The Lady Falcons dominated the Region D tournament at Va Tech. Defeated 2 time defending champion Carroll County 64-57. The Lady Falcons are playing their best basketball of the season right now and AJ Trivette's presence on the floor was the major factors in the semi-finals and finals wins!!! Great Job girls.

would Lebanon not have been half way for each Va High and Graham

hopefully it will be a good one tomorrow vs abingdon!!! I just dread the trip back up I81

she threw an elbow on one of the fouls, it was legit and prob should have been a flagrant foul. 2 of her first half fouls were legit but 2 should have not been called, they called an offensive foul for hooking on her which she did but she was being fouled up to that point and they didn't call the fouls on MV against her yet they call her for protecting herself with the hook!!!

Lady Falcons beat Lord Botetourt today at Va Tech 52-41 to punch their ticket to state tourney next week, In the second game CC beat Magna Vista 62-42. I don't even know how to explain this one, Alyssa Ervin picked up her fourth foul 3 min in the second quarter. She was able to finish the game and got her rhythm in the second half and the foul totals went somewhere around 20 MV to 2 CC in the second half. They had no clue what they were doing in this game!! The 3A POY came close to fouling out in 11 min of playing time in the FIRST HALF!!!!!!!

bubba edwards is supposedly going to richlands to be the OC I have heard

I am sure there were a few transfers back in the day!!! it just wasn't as big a deal

well in the past there wasn't an open transfer portal like they are today. lots of parents out there today believe their kid is going to be that D1 superstar when in reality its prob more like 1 in 5,000 in SWVA.

they should play LB in the finals!!!

they couldn't afford shaq!!!

my thinking was so they wouldn't have to play wise central again!!!

union is happy with that GC win!!!!

very good points here, all these coaches you mention I guarantee had or have a say in all school feeder programs coming below them, yes there are dads that more than likely coach these teams but those are not the "daddy ball" coaches being spoken of. all these programs do need great parents involved as parents. not sure who runs some of these programs but I can tell you that one of the best teams Dotson had back 20 years ago or so had their start playing AAU ball for PEE WEE Dean from St. Paul. The Council Teams in the late 90's and early 2000's were built by Dave Rasnake, former coach and parent at Council. I can assure you that Larry Compton had his hands all over the programs at Haysi. All these I mentioned were parents coaching their kids but were very good coaches and new the game as well.

can you post the girls bracket

this will be a shootout, no one is favored and I can easily see GC not winning this!!

spot on, thanks for clarifying my point!! you can watch games today and several kids look up in the stands at their parent trying to coach them!!! you see it all the time. there have been and are some super loaded travel ball teams and the kids on those teams develop a ton of experience and skills, kids have to many options today and are not as interested in the work it takes to grow as a player and team and it will get worse!!! all great programs have to have a great feeder program and the schools that stay at the top usually do,

7-2 at minimum

this ruling will be 9-0 in DJT's favor

the term daddy ball is there are people who think they know or understand these sports run teams to highlight or showcase their kids at all cost. what is lost is that fundaments, basketball skills, basketball knowledge, game management, team concept and so forth. daddy ball is not necessarily the coach as the parents are as much to blame, look at eastside to burton this year!!!! all successful teams and programs had a great feeder program that led to that with great parental support behind that push. the game is being lost because kids are losing fundamentals, skills and all the knowledge that is needed to build a successful program..

there is a lack of quality coaching in this area as well, most of these kids grow up playing daddy ball in the travel leagues and some of the bad habits can't be broke, most teams players lack fundamentals, basketball skill and knowledge of the game!!! this is happening in all sports except for a few programs in different sports!! all the schools have lost students throughout the years and its going to keep getting worse!!

there is a ponderosa still open in Ripley WVA,

yet they lost to wise 3 times, unbelievable!!!